by Since the councils, which compensate for the hotel taxes and higher parking fees to compensate for the books, have an idea of achieving income from unsuspecting visitors: they achieve a high price for using the toilet. Many councils calculate 20p or 40p, sometimes even 50 pence, but now costs a prince £ 1 in Eastbourne to spend a penny in the three public toilet blocks along the four miles long coast.
Institutions from the Victoria era, which were previously used free of charge, were installed to a price of £ 136,000-which were only opened from their bank account after the withdrawal of £ 1 via a card or mobile banking. There is no way to pay with cash.
“This is a disappointing policy that undermines tourism in Eastbourne,” says Jonathan Owen, General Manager of the Hydro Hotel from Eastbourne. “We have to create reasons to visit our wonderful coastal city and not offer visitors negativity.” The neighboring Brighton does not calculate either for its public toilets by the sea or hastings.
When maintaining the 12 public toilets of the city, a spokesman in Eastbourne Borough Council cost £ 300,000 a year: “In addition, a further 100,000 pounds reacted to damage, abuse and anti -social behavior.” Since advice does not give legal requirements for public toilets, many have closed nationwide to save the funds of the local council.
John Boisvert, 74: “We have been here for years, but now the Council seems to have real tomb of money.”
“The Eastbourne Council wanted to close all the toilets on the coast, apart from those near the bandstand,” says Gaynor Sedgwick, chairman of the Friends of Eastbourne coast. “But this is a tourist city. We cannot have come to the toilet with the never -to -go visitor. We fought against the Council against the toilet closings. We carried out a media campaign and interviewed visitors,” says Sedgwick. “More than 80 percent of those surveyed stated that they were paying and their preferred amount was 20 Pence. However, some said that they are used to paying € 1 abroad. The council took this information and decided that they would charge a pound. We would prefer that the Council operate free toilets, but rather to do not have any toilets for which they have to pay.”
Visitors to the city of East Sussex, who sells in England as the sunniest, are unimpressed. “We have been here for years, but now the Council seems to be real money grave.” said John Boisvert, 74, who visited Eastbourne for this day with his wife Tracy. “I don’t pay £ 1 – I will go into the bushes instead.”
It is not just older people who complain about the charges. The 25 -year -old Ben Barden, who runs out with friends with friends from London, said: “For 1 £, I would expect someone to polish to Aftershave and my shoes. They are not even beautiful toilets – they smell.”
At the eastern end of the coast, near the start of boats from the beach, the public Loos were closed by the Council for nine months last year. It led to a decline in income for a nearby refreshing hut, Nascafé. The owner, NAS Chikh, took the matter into her own hands, and now maintains half of the former council and offers two unisex toilets during the opening hours of her café.
NAS Chikh puts two unisex toilets during the opening hours of her café and a local man donated a toilet seat when he saw that one was broken
Chikh estimates that maintaining the toilet will cost its £ 15,000 a year and says that it only spends £ 250 per month for toilet paper. But keeping the toilet has become a shared subdue. “A local man donated a toilet seat when he saw that one was broken,” she laughs.
This was a forerunner of Eastbourne’s community toilet program, which was started in January. Companies are now encouraged to offer the public to use their toilets free of charge, even though donations are welcomed – without making a purchase. But sustainability of it is doubt. “Yesterday we had about 500 people to use the toilets,” said an employee of the Glasshouse Restaurant, the only other community toilet on the coast. “It is uncomfortable for other customers to use a lot of people to use the toilets,” says Gaynor Sedgwick, “and the company costs a lot to maintain them.”
Few would treat councils that calculate a nominal amount for the use of the toilet. In fact, in London in London in London, Penny’s toilets were introduced in London in London. However, it is easy to see why £ 1 is considered excessively, especially by visitors who already contribute to the economy of the city.
